[Global Times reporter Tang Jin Li Hai] Although the Japanese government has decided to extend the "emergency declarations" for Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures until the end of May, the severe condition of the medical system in the Kansai region of Japan continues Among them, the situation in Osaka is the most serious.
According to Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" report on the 9th, the new crown epidemic in Osaka Prefecture is spreading rapidly, hospital beds are in emergency, and the utilization rate of intensive care beds is as high as 99%.
According to the latest report, Japan has more than 7,200 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest record since January 9 this year.
Osaka Prefecture announced on the 7th that there were 1,005 newly confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia that day, and the death toll was 50, a record high.
There were 493 new confirmed cases and 39 deaths in Hyogo Prefecture.
An official from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated, “According to the Japanese government’s statistics on deaths per million people, the number of people in Osaka Prefecture is 19.6 (on May 5). This tragedy is much higher than the 15.5 people in India and Mexico. 16.2 people, and 14.5 people in the United States. Hyogo Prefecture in the Kansai region has 9.0 people, Ehime Prefecture has 11.2 people, and Tokyo in the Kanto region has 1.4 people. The gap is significant."
An official of the Japanese government said in an interview, “(Osaka Prefecture) many elderly people who died of new coronary pneumonia died while waiting for hospital beds because they were unable to be admitted to the hospital. Before the media reported, the hospital and the The administrative agency will not announce the specific situation. Treating these elderly people is like "auntie mountain" (a mountain located between Nagano City and Matsumoto City, Japan, famous for discarding elderly people over 70 years old here) The same. The use of hospital beds across Japan is in urgent need, and the situation in Kansai is particularly severe. The latest data released by Osaka Prefecture shows that the utilization rate of intensive care beds is 99%. But in fact, the number of severely ill patients with new coronary pneumonia far exceeds the number of intensive care beds. Now, with about 15,000 people waiting to be admitted to the hospital, the collapse of the medical system will be inevitable."
The staff of a nursing home in Osaka Prefecture confirmed the current tragedy. He said, “We are a nursing home under the hospital, but even so, not all elderly people can be hospitalized, some can only wait in nursing homes. We can only temporarily invite doctors and nurses from the hospital for treatment. If the elderly are diagnosed with infection, it is okay. It’s ridiculous. A doctor who visited the hospital once complained, “Elderly people have such abnormal conditions, and they can only wait in nursing homes. It’s really ridiculous. It’s ridiculous.” Many of the nursing staff in this nursing home have no experience in dealing with patients with new coronary pneumonia and are struggling with it. A paramedic said, “It takes twice as long as usual to help the elderly who are suspected of infection to defecate and eat. Some suspected elderly coughing ceaselessly makes me feel very terrible.” “Global Times” reporter I saw in Osaka that although the media was overwhelmingly reporting news about the worsening of the epidemic, most of the people were still in a good state of mind, and there was no excessive panic.